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Topic: Best Environment For an OS X user? Newbie Questions

First post.

Ok... so I've read a number of guides for setting up Rails on my machine (aluminum macbook, OS X 10.5). I've updated the Rails install that came with OS X and installed X Code. But I have a couple questions:

- I have Coda, and love it. But I hear it's lacking in Rails support... would you guys advise against Coda? I also have Textmate and Transmit that I could use, I guess. I also have Dreamweaver.

- For a newbie who would like as much hand-holding as possible... is BitNami's RubyStack a good idea for deploying a dev environment on my machine?

Are there any other tools or newb-specific advice you can point a new user too? I'm not a coder... I've always been a designer, so I'm kinda overwhelmed by the amount of options available in setting up my environment/workspace.

I am serious about becoming a competent rails coder though... I just don't want to regret using a dated setup or the wrong tools, right out of the box.

Re: Best Environment For an OS X user? Newbie Questions

Download RubyGems from here: http://rubyonrails.org/download, then just run "ruby setup.rb" to install gems and "gem install rails" to install rails and you're ready to go!

type: "rails myapp" to create a test app. you should get a directory called myapp full of rails code.

Editorwise, Textmate is good to start with. It's what everyone uses and it's nice because it does just enough for you but not too much so you stay close to the code. Drag the myapp folder onto the textmate icon in the dock to open a project.